... types of natural environments. Originality/value This study supports the promotion of interaction with nature among immigrant women as part of low-cost public health work. Practitioners should consider multiple arenas for potential nature-related mental health gains. The interviews were conducted...

...-use rights only Migration Public health Decision partners Previous research on healthcare seeking in diverse areas has long been focuseed on notions of “access” and “barriers” to services. However, little research has specifically explored and conceptualised what happens after...

... County Department of Public Health. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression models were used to assess odds for asymptomatic Giardia. Findings Of the 1,221 Giardia cases reported in Monroe County during that time, 38 percent (n=467) were refugees, 6 percent...

... (Fassin, 1992, 2001, 2010 ; Fassin and Rechtman, 2009) and the work of the Brazilian researcher Tatiana Gerhardt (2006) , that described the long and complicated therapeutic itineraries that patients of the Brazilian Public Health System have to follow in order to be treated. An “itinerary,” from...

..., cultural and public health issues. The African community and its peak organisation, the African Communities Council of South Australia is presented and various empowerment strategies used by the council are discussed as a healthy model for empowering new settlers in the new environment. Findings...

...Rubens Camargo Ferreira Adorno Purpose This paper seeks to address the issue of contemporary vulnerabilities in the context of late capitalism, analysing how policy making directed at the public health system in Brazil has targeted groups that are made visible from an exclusion perspective...